A viral story about a Japanese man who died after being crushed by his massive porn collection is total BS.

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The Daily Mail appears to have started the false claim. A March 3 story claimed that a "lonely Japanese man who amassed more than six tons of porn died when a huge pile of magazines fell on top of him."

The story further claimed that the 50-year-old man, identified only as Joji, went undiscovered for six months after his death.